@Plots.animate results in UndefVarError: Animation not defined

[Mofef]

Hi,

I noticed if you don't use using Plots but only import Plots, then using @Plots.animate results in

UndefVarError: Animation not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at /home/mofef/.julia/packages/Plots/h3o4c/src/animation.jl:167
 [2] top-level scope at In[50]:4 

I'm new to Julia and I figured that using is much more commonly used than import. Though as far as I understand, both should work...? (I prefer import while learning because it lets me keep track of where something is coming from)

[daschw]

Thanks a lot for reporting!

[JeffFessler]

This issue seems still not fully resolved. Here is my MWE:

using Plots: plot, @animate
anim = @animate for i in 1:2
    plot(rand(5))
end

From a user point of view, this code should work because it has specified all of the methods from Plots that appear to be used (plot and @animate).
But the code fails with the error
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: Plots not defined

The culprit is this line of code:

Plots.jl/src/animation.jl

Line 249 in 10ee593

$animsym = Plots.Animation() # init animation object

The work around is to add import Plots to the user code, but it would be more user friendly if the import Plots was built into the @animate macro.
Is it possible to have an import statement with a macro?
If so, I could make a PR.
If not, then the @animate documentation should instruct the user to do import Plots before using it.